Biographie orateur: Ms Maria Telalian

Ms Maria Telalian

Legal Adviser at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 2003 to 2007 she served at the Permanent Mission of Greece to the UN as Minister Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative of Greece. During Greece’s two-year tenure as an elected member of the Security Council, she had been dealing with the Security Council and its subsidiary organs, particularly the Counter Terrorism Committee and the Sanctions Committees (Cote d’Ivoire, Sudan, Informal Working Group on General Issues on Sanctions) of which Greece had the chairmanship.
Since 2001 she is the Greek Representative at the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly and since 2007 the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Criminal Accountability of the UN Personnel.
She is also coordinating the negotiations on the elaboration of the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism within the Ad Hoc Committee established by G.A. 51/210 of 17.12.96 and the relevant working group of the Sixth Committee.